Publications by authors named "Helen Capeleto Francisco"
Purpose: To check the association between a good performance of language and the recognition of facial emotional expressions in elderly individuals.
Methods: Transversal study performed with 118 elderly individuals from the primary care services of health of a city in the state of São Paulo. Sociodemographic data were collected, regarding the performance of language through the domain of Addenbrooke Cognitive Examination - Revised and Recognition of Facial Emotional Expressions.
Unlabelled: Some cognitive dimensions, such as attention, memory and executive functions, may decline with age, while other functions remain intact or even improve due to greater life experience.
Objective: to analyze the relationship between cognitive processing, language and verbal fluency among elderly individuals seen by primary healthcare services located in a city in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil.
Methods: a cross-sectional study with a quantitative method was conducted.